Awful

Rating: 1/10 (15 March 2014)

This horrible excuse for a movie is the epitome of everything that is wrong with film-making these days. Style over substance. Visually stunning but devoid of everything else that makes a good film.
Idris Elba was horribly miscast as was practically everyone else and I can't honestly say I have ever watched a film that was so empty and vacuous, so bereft of anything approaching a good performance. It's almost a credit to say that every facet of the movie was so utterly atrocious.
By far the worst thing Guillermo Del Toro has made or ever will make and I'm sure he'll look back on it and think 'what the hell was I doing?'
It pains me to say that Transformers 2 was better which tells you absolutely everything you need to know. Avoid this clichéd CGI tripe at all costs. Having a colostomy bag fitted would be more fun.
I would give it a negative mark out of 10 if I could. If this is where film-making is going, we're all going to hell in a handbasket.